Bitcoin Rallied 25% Into September's 58% Rate Hike Bet
Traders now put the odds of a September Fed rate hike near 58 percent, yet Bitcoin ran up 25 percent on the week and still held well above 80,000 dollars.
Traders now put the odds of a September Fed rate hike near 58 percent, yet Bitcoin ran up 25 percent on the week and still held well above 80,000 dollars.
Kraken is delisting 21 tokens on September 11 and will force-sell leftover balances between December 14 and 18, warning proceeds may be minimal or nil.
Funding rates are the recurring fee that keeps perpetual futures tied to spot. Learn how the 8-hour payment works, who pays whom, what the rate signals.
XRP rallied nearly 40 percent in late August, yet XRP futures open interest fell 16 percent and CME passed Binance as the top venue. Bought, not borrowed.
Bitcoin volume just hit a 2023 low while open interest held above its two-year average. K33 warns the quiet market is primed for liquidation moves.
Succinct's PROVE unlock freed 100 million tokens on August 5. Three trackers logged it at 203M, 208M and 233M. The gap is a labeling error.
Kraken is force-selling seven delisted tokens this week. Its own notices show 56 more assets queued for automatic liquidation by November.
Vietnam fines unlicensed crypto trading from September 1, 2026. Not one local exchange holds a license yet, and the retail figure is disputed.
BitMart says withdrawals stay open as it winds down. On-chain data shows only 58 wallets and $805K left in 24 hours, with funds moving to rival exchanges.
BitMEX invented the perpetual swap and once held 57% of crypto derivatives. It shuts down on 23 September while trading $138 million a day.
MANTA fell 15% on an advisor unlock, but the release was tiny. The real problem is a Layer 2 network that earns about $13 a day.
SKYAI fell 46% in a day, but on-chain analysts saw it coming: nearly all its supply sits in linked wallets, and four AI tokens already crashed.
Bitcoin clung to $62,500 in extreme fear, but the day's real moves were elsewhere: the CLARITY Act hit political risk, Wall Street pushed into prediction markets, and Binance faced a June 30 EU deadline.
Everything large-cap is red, yet a wall of small tokens is green, led by OPN up 58%. The reason is mostly thin liquidity and bounces off recent lows, not strength.
ZachXBT alleges insiders controlling 90% of supply engineered a short squeeze that caused $44 million in liquidations. RAVE has dropped over 50% from its $27 peak.
The official line is a single zero-day that hit on April 25. The git log on the litecoin-project repo says the consensus vulnerability was privately patched four weeks earlier. Two different stories, one chain reorg in the middle.
Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world by trading volume and one of the most consequential companies in the entire industry, despite the legal and regulatory pressure that has reshaped its operations over the last several years. The coverage here tracks what matters: volume and market share across spot, futures, and options as Binance defends its position against Coinbase, OKX, Bybit, and the rest of the global venue landscape, regulatory actions from the DOJ settlement to ongoing pressure from the SEC, CFTC, and international regulators, token listings and delistings that move altcoin prices within minutes of announcement, BNB Chain developments and the broader Binance ecosystem of products including Launchpad, Earn, and the Web3 wallet, the Changpeng Zhao narrative as the founder transitions out of executive roles but remains the dominant public face of the brand, and Star Xu vs CZ and the recurring industry feuds that occasionally turn into billion dollar wagers. Binance moves the market when it acts. A listing announcement creates immediate volume. A delisting triggers a sell-off. A wallet movement gets analyzed within minutes. Coinliva covers the listings, the regulatory cases, the executive moves, and the broader question of how an exchange this large operates under permanent regulatory scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions.